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PLOWSHARE
Definition of PLOWSHARE
noun
Alternative spelling of ploughshare.
PLOUGHSHARE
noun
The cutting edge of a plough, typically a metal blade.
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Other senses
PLOWSHARE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
The cutting blade of a plow; a share.
noun
The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the ground at the bottom of the furrow, and raises the slice to the mold-board, which turns it over; the sock of a plow. See first cut under plow.
noun
In anatomy, the vomer.
noun
The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.
Where it comes from
From Middle English plowgh-schare, plowh schare, equivalent to plow + share. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Plouchskoar (“ploughshare”), West Frisian ploechskaar (“ploughshare”), Dutch ploegschaar (“ploughshare”), German Low German Ploogschoor (“ploughshare”), German Pflugschar (“ploughshare”), Danish plovskær (“ploughshare”), Norwegian plogskjær (“ploughshare”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English culter (“ploughshare”), from Old English culter (“ploughshare, coulter, dagger”), borrowed from Latin culter (“knife, razor”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,183)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, German, Latin, Norwegian, Old English.
PLOWSHARE in a sentence
“The Volna, that formidable Cold War sword, had proved a less than reliable plowshare, making for a failure that was bitterly beside the point: the chemically propelled brute-force rocket was the trouble, not the beautiful Icarian blades that never got a chance to be tested.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PLOWSHARE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 128 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PLOWSHARE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHLOPRSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PLOWSH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PLOWSHARE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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